VMware blinks on vSphere 5 licensing: vSphere Flash 5 Licenses

VMware users reduce costs, increase flexibility and increased fear of VRAM limits, reacted angrily vSphere 5 licenses.

Without paying through the nose - vSphere 5 supports virtual machines with up to 1TB of memory - Furthermore, for customers of a giant cross VMware virtual machines (VM) can be used together. The company best way to allocate memory for virtual machines available to customers today, just three weeks after the announcement of a new licensing model, the change, he said.

"The partners, equipment manufacturers and others ... Obviously, they are much closer, had already described the information, "Alberto Farronato, VMware senior product marketing manager.

New virtual memory (VRAM), the limits "of customers in the next 12 to 18 months depending on what hardware configuration is described in terms of investment plans," he said.

VSphere license to use VMware is a necessary evolution in the original model 5 welcomed the news.

"Sales teams hate him," said Bob Plankers a large Midwestern university, an architect of virtualization. Now we must think of them "Customers hate that. Customers, sales teams, he said. "... Our repeated deployments? We will stop and think."

5 vSphere license change

Here are the top 5 of VRAM, and how today's news with an eye changed human vSphere:

• Hypervisor vSphere now 8 GB, 32 GB was (ESXi free)
• 5 vSphere Standard, Essentials and Basics Plus is now 24 GB, 32 GB was
• Company VSphere 5: Now, was the 64 GB to 32 GB
• Plus vSphere 5 Enterprise: 48 GB, 96 GB today

Also, regardless of the number of VRAM to VRAM license only the original 96 GB actual size of the VM. Under the allocated memory, 1 TB, the cost would be about $ 75,000 a VM licensing model of the original license vSphere 5. $ 3.495 per processor: Now it's a virtual machine for the license fee will cost the Enterprise Plus.

Instead of 12 months moving average for daily use to determine the cost to charge the maximum amount of video RAM used in the cloud of VMware Infrastructure. This approach, similar to how to manage virtual machines for VMware vCenter line under license.

Always transition vSphere license?

Increasing competition from other VMware manufacturers, never done before, including Microsoft, the faces change as the license is available vSphere 5. The new entry level model in the middle of the fury, said in a statement that some customers, Hyper-V and XenServer, Citrix Systems, a careful examination.

"Customers are much more expensive to get up and talk to the increasing competitive pressure, which led to really" Plankers said.

Many users see this change as just the first step of evolution, the license of VMware. VRAM is still based on the limits of the physical CPU vSphere even includes 5 licenses. VMware officials the possibility of lots of human VRAM (separate license per CPU), said the company informed its customers that the special interests, but to make more of VRAM was one of the most widely acceptable proposals.

Some users will always see that as a model.

"VRAM than the cost of moving the model to its customers to provide easy, because [it] would probably be something you can see in the future," Chris House, Metro health an engineer, a provider of medical services in the Midwest said.

VMware, or in a future not ruled himself 100% virtual license. In fact, there was one product launches there are five licensing options vSphere.

"They are stuck in the middle of the kind now," said Plankers. "Most of their licensing agreements the company is based on the processor. But at some point will have to cut a little more fully. "

Jeff Byrne, Taneja Group senior analyst and consultant, agreed.

"They are really more the service model is based on more traditional earnings per virtual machine, the hardware, the processor is a first step in trying to make and do," he said. "Currently, we have license, and I connected with the processor core in the next couple of years, I think you'll see, perhaps, will be absent, "he said.

Other users also see the license said you wanted to lower levels that the borders of VRAM. Tom Howarth, an independent consultant based in the UK, the standard vSphere 5, Essentials and guidelines proposed to be 32 instead of 48 GB of VRAM, more human.

"Despite the welcome increase in low level of questions, still do not think that's enough," he said.